Spanish Property

Politics

The principal feature of Spain's constitutional history has been its extreme instability. Throughout the 19th century and up to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936, Spain has seven constitutions and a number of projetcs and partial reforms which were never enacted. This insecurity, only comparable within Europe to that experienced by France, had its direct roots in the convulsive political history of contemporary Spain. It has been said that, during decades, the Spanish Constitution was a weapon, at times not merely dialectic, wielded by the conservatives or the champions of progress, rather than being used as an instrument of agreement and national integration.

This was foreseeable, given that political competence was established among various forces defending diametrically opposed postitions with respect to several fundamental aspects of the political system.